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Théorie du management par les ressources

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Learning from Startups: Corporate Venture Capital and Exploratory Knowledge Creation

Corporate venture capital (CVC), direct minority equity investments made by established companies in privately held startups, has become an important strategic tool for many large companies. In particular, firms often pursue CVC investing as a way to learn ...

2009

Influence of regulatory uncertainty on capacity investments – Are investments in new technologies a risk mitigation measure?

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

Understanding the investment decisions of power companies is vital for a regulator as particularly deficient investments in generation capacity could jeopardize the market in the long run. Considering potential risks that could hamper investments, the pape ...

2009

Simulating Learning Dynamics in Project Networks

Juan Andrei Villarroel Fernandez

In this paper we develop a multiagent simulation model to explore the impact of learning dynamics on the productive implementation of innovations in project networks comprised of designers and contractors. Though researchers generally agree that when firms ...

2009

Creating Exploratory Innovations by Learning from Entrepreneurial Ventures

Anu Wadhwa

Corporate venture capital (CVC), direct minority equity investments made by established companies in privately held start-ups, has become an important strategic tool for many large companies. In particular, firms often pursue CVC investing as a way to lear ...

Springer2008

Diversification into logistics

Patrick Mollet

Postal incumbents in Europe have encountered during the last decade fundamental changes in their industry environment, which now threaten their very business model: governments decided to liberalise first the parcel market, then gradually the letter market ...

EPFL2008

Open Source Corporate Strategy (OSCS): Reaching outside the firm’s boundaries to tap upon global talent

Christopher Tucci, Juan Andrei Villarroel Fernandez

We propose a new concept, OSCS, seeking to explain the process by which the firm incorporates open source principles into its business model, as an effective diversification strategy to gain and sustain competitive advantage, in the context of a globally i ...

2007

Evolving Neuromodulatory Topologies for Reinforcement Learning-like Problems

Dario Floreano, Claudio Mattiussi, Peter Dürr, Andrea Soltoggio

Environments with varying reward contingencies constitute a challenge to many living creatures. In such conditions, animals capable of adaptation and learning derive an advantage. Recent studies suggest that neuromodulatory dynamics are a key factor in reg ...

IEEE Press2007

An agent-based approach to examine the ‘network knowledge advantage’ in open innovation networks: Firm openness and interorganizational network performance

Juan Andrei Villarroel Fernandez

In this paper we present the results of an agent-based model of open innovation, which suggest the network knowledge advantage underlying open interfirm networks of innovation, as opposed to an advantage arising from the interfirm network structure. To dat ...

2007

Simulating learning in interorganizational networks: The insidious role of task interdependence and relational instability in system-level learning

Juan Andrei Villarroel Fernandez

In this paper we develop a multi-agent simulation model to explore the issue of learning in interorganizational networks. Though interorganizational network researchers generally agree that when firms form into networks they will gain access to new knowled ...

2006

Exploring the performance effects of Internetworking

Christopher Tucci

Extant theory presents two explanations as to how IT inputs might affect firm performance: direct or indirect associations between IT inputs and overall economic performance are proposed. A survey of 550 firms indicates that in the case of internetworking ...

2005

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